Question
Which lines are a couplet?
(1 point)
“It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
“It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”
“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”
“If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
(1 point)
“It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
“It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”
“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”
“If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
Answers
GPT-4o mini
A couplet consists of two consecutive lines that typically rhyme and have the same meter. In the provided lines, the couplets are:
1. “If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
2. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
The first couplet has a rhyme scheme (proved/loved) and the second has a rhyme scheme (weeks/doom). The other lines do not form couplets as they are presented.
1. “If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
2. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
The first couplet has a rhyme scheme (proved/loved) and the second has a rhyme scheme (weeks/doom). The other lines do not form couplets as they are presented.